This year's All-Star Rookie Challenge in Orlando will be played in a completely different format than in the past, with this year's Rookie Challenge featuring mixed teams of first- and second-year players, the first time in history that a mixed team of first- and second-year players will be used against each other.

The roster of players for the Rookie Challenge is selected by the assistant coaches of NBA teams. Barkley and Shaquille. O'Neal will serve as general manager for each of the two teams, and the head coach of both teams will be the lead assistant coach of the coaching staff of the Eastern and Western All-Star Game. Flatlow and Steve. Kerr will also join the coaching staff of both teams, with Fratlau helping Ross Barkley and Kerr helping O'Neal.

Among the first-year players selected for the All-Star Rookie Challenge was Blake. Griffin, John. Wall, DeMarcus. Cousins, Landry. Fields, Paul. George, Gordon. Hayward, Greg. Monroe, Thiago. Split, Evan. Turner and Jeremy Lin.

The sophomore players are, Kyrie. Owen, Ricky. Rubio, Marchand. Brooks, Brandon. Knight, Kewai. Leonard, Markieff. Morris, Tristan. Thompson, Kemba. Walker, Derek. Williams and Jimmy. Butler.

Through the NBA's first rookie draft, O'Neal's roster is as follows: Blake. Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Ricky. Rubio, Markeef. Morris, Grieg. Monroe, Landry. Fields, Jimmy. Butler, Kemba. Walker, Blanton. Knight and Tristan. Thompson.

The Barkley squad is as follows: Carey. Owen, DeMarcus. Cousins, Gordon. Hayward, Paul. George, Derek. Williams, Marchand. Brooks, John. Wall, Thiago. Split, Kawai. Leonard and Evan. Turner.

Among them, Cousins was unable to play due to injury, and Derek. Favors will come out on as a substitute. Leonard was also unable to compete due to injury.

The Orlando All-Star Rookie Challenge kicked off at the Amway Center Arena two days before the All-Star Game, with O'Neal starting the game as Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Rubio, Morris, Monroe and Knight, and Barkley starting as Irving, George, Turner, Williams and Favors.

The defensive intensity of the Rookie Challenge is low, and it is often unguarded, which is to let the players on the court score as much as they want to delight the fans, and showing off their athleticism and offensive skills is the highlight of this entertainment exhibition game.

At the beginning of the game, the Barkley team started their performance early, and Owen passed the air cut George to complete the empty dunk and scored the first goal of the game!

Then O'Neal's team continued to attack, and Barkley's team, led by Irving and Wall, scored dunks one after another, playing an 8-0 start, while Barkley scored the team's first goal of the game by Griffin who turned away from Williams' defense and received Jeremy Lin's air pass.

When the game was more than 5 minutes into play, both teams made personnel changes. Butler wore a Kings jersey to the All-Star Rookie Challenge!

Jimmy. When Butler came on the court, Tyrek, who was watching from the sidelines, stood up and pointed his finger at the sky and shouted, "Jimmy!! Fight well! Show everyone what you're made of!! ”

Jimmy, apparently hearing Tyrek's shouting, turned around and smiled and gave Tyrek a thumbs up.

At this time, the camera lens on the court immediately pointed at the all-star player Tyrek who was cheering for Jimmy on the sidelines, and Vivik, the big boss of the Kings next to Tyreek, was also sitting and watching the game together, and it can be seen from the picture of the camera lens that Tyrek sat down and Vivirk was laughing and whispering on the sidelines, obviously the relationship between Tyrek and the team's big boss was very good, which made the media start to speculate about the relationship between Tyrek and the daughter of the team's big boss.

But today's protagonists are the players on the court who participate in the Rookie Challenge, and Jimmy completely puts his enthusiasm into the game as soon as he takes the court, although the Rookie Challenge can be said to be a track and field match between outstanding rookies on the basketball court, and it is an offense to watch! It's a violent buckle! But Jimmy's best defense is the first to show his toughness, even in the Rookie Challenge.

In a fast break in which the Barkley team grabbed a defensive rebound, Turner advanced from the backcourt with the ball, and after shaking off Morris in the process, he was defended by Jimmy's close-quarters, and Turner, who dribbled, was squeezed by Jimmy until his action was deformed, and then Jimmy quickly reached out and knocked off the ball in Turner's hand!

O'Neal's offense and defense transitioned, Jimmy broke the ball and gave the ball to Rubio laterally, Rubio gave it to Griffin, Griffin dribbled two steps under his crotch and then faced Favors with a step-back jumper, smashing the basket and missing!

Williams picks up the defensive rebound and makes a long throw to Turner, who is in the frontcourt!

"Smack!"

Jimmy, who was behind Turner, took the lead in judging the passing route, grabbed the position in front of Turner, and directly reached out to cut off the flying ball! Two steals in a row!

This is how Jimmy plays, a pit bull-like biting defense!

Although the rookie challenge is not as exciting as the aerial dunk, such a defensive scene is also bloody enough!

At the same time, although Jimmy's physical fitness is not the top in the league, the audience likes to dunk him!

After breaking the ball, Jimmy dribbled the ball forward, and after half court gave the ball to Rubio again, and then Jimmy went straight inside, and reached out to Rubio to ask for the ball while running, Rubio deftly threw the ball high, Jimmy jumped over, Rubio's toss was just right, Jimmy caught the ball with one hand and smashed it into the basket!!

"Pretty !!"

Tyrek and Vivek on the sidelines shook their fists together and shouted, the most of their teammates, the most members of their own team, Jimmy's break and then the dunk in the air are enough to make the two of them excited!

This is just a microcosm of Jimmy's rookie challenge, and in the end, Jimmy contributed 10 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, and 8 steals in the whole game! It was only one time away from tying the 2007 Chris. Paul's Rookie Challenge steal record!

However, in the end, Jimmy's O'Neal team still lost to the Barkley team by 13 points. Irving made 8-of-8 three-pointers and scored 34 points and 9 assists, winning the Most Valuable Player of the Orlando All-Star Rookie Challenge for his game-dominating performance.